CHAPTER 45

"I don't freaking know why everything isn't working out, I'm just so tired of planning planning planning and at the end, the plan doesn't work out" Steph complained.

Diego said they had to make another plan.

"Chill Steph, we just have to be more strategic this time. I believe this new plan will work out" Diego assured.

"That's what you say Everytime, just look... I can't believe people are starting to like the rags Bethel put on. It's just like I worked in her favor by getting her more attention and am freaking annoyed about it right now!" Steph groaned, hoping that the new plan will work in her favor.

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"There's this new dress I will be releasing soon..." Bethel told Angel. They were both in her workshop. While Angel was putting back the sketch pad in place, Bethel was doing the finishing of a clients dress.

"Wow! Mom you are good at this!" Angel's eyes lit as Bethel wore the new dress on a mannequin. She's glad to know Bethel is focused about the whole thing. All the dresses she made today were awesome.

"Mom you sew so well and am afraid you're gonna steal so many customers from the top fashion stores in NY" Angel pouted.

"Really?" Bethel raised a brow.

Angel nodded. "Yes but we will put them in their places one after the other".

Bethel laughed at the kid's words.

"So many people are starting to follow my Instagram handle and I'm starting to receive lots of messages, orders and enquires. I think I need a manager" Bethel said dramatically and they both laughed.

"I'm done with this. Come on, it's past bed time" Bethel said, turning off the computer in her workshop. After that, she lifted Angel in her arm and walked out of the workshop only to bump into Harry.

Her heart almost flew out of her chest.

"Sorry" they said at the same time.

Harry blinked his lashes and stepped away from her way. He was surprised to meet her in the workshop at that time of the night.

"Daddie!" Angel chuckled and Bethel dropped her immediately.

Harry collected her, his eyes still not leaving Bethel.

She was clad in that nightgown that would make any man loose his mind.

Her skin looked so creamy and smooth and her hair was let down. It dropped on the base of her butt and her soft looking lips were parted slightly, her incredible eyes started into his, giving him jitters.

She looked like a fairy.

So naturally beautiful.

"Nanny sew so well" Angel said the moment she noticed the awkward stares between them.

"Really?" Harry darted his eyes immediately. He walked into the mansion, leaving Bethel alone to lock her fashion resort.

They had dinner together, after putting Angel to bed, Bethel walked out of the room to check on Harry.

She knocked at the door, it was opened immediately.

"I can't sleep, let's go to the verandah" she said.

"Come in-" Harry said.

"Hun?... I mean the verandah...." She was saying before Harry shut her up with a sizzling kiss.

Her eyes widened in surprise and her heart was already beating fast against her chest, almost knocking it off.

She could feel her face heat up and she tried so much not to return the kids but she couldn't hold herself anymore.

She melted in his arms as she kissed h back, matching his passion and at that moment, all that existed to them was pure love.

She gave herself in completely, loosing control over herself. The kiss went on and on until they both had to stop it to catch their breath.

Bethel tore her lips away after a long minute of kissing. Not able to look up, she felt so shy that she wished she had magic, she would have just disappeared to her room because she can't even look at Harry in the face right now and she's sure her cheeks must have lost it's color.

They both didn't say anything to each other for a while.

Harry smiled and licked his lips noticing how shy Bethel was.

"Isn't your neck hurting?" He asked, raising her head with his palms. He made her look into his eyes and then smiled in what could be interpreted as bliss. Bethel's stomach curled as he brought his lips closer again.

And she couldn't even stop him.

She didn't see herself stopping him. She wanted it too.

"Come in" he whispered to her ears.

Ding! She had thought he would kiss her again.

She walked into his room and smiled. This is not the first time she will be here but everytime she comes here, she's always impressed with how luxurious his room looks.

She sat her butt on the bed, inwardly scolding herself over the kiss.

"Here" Harry handed her a glass of chilled orange juice.

"Thank you" she replied.

"Come" he took her hand and led her to the verandah.

"Wow, what a view" Bethel said.

"Yeah, it's a beautiful night" Harry smiled.

"I've never been here, you're so lucky with this great view" Bethel sipped her juice.

"How do you know I like orange juice?" She asked.

"Your baby told me" he replied.

"Ohh Angel" she smiled.

They both rested their hands in the rails and stared at the sky with different thoughts running through their minds.

"You said you are going to tell me about the cause of your addiction" Bethel suddenly said.

Harry's heart galloped in his chest. For a moment- just a moment. He wondered if there will be a way to avoid that promise. If there will be a way to talk about his past.

He knows there's no escaping it. There is no backing down from that promise. Nit after last night, the best thing to do is to tell her about it.

Whether she chooses to believe it or not, it will be his business. Whether she chooses to think of him as a liar, it will be his business too.

She already has a poor opinion of him on the first night she slept with her forcefully and took her virginity. More poor opinion won't hurt much.

Regardless of that, he feels so ashamed and exposed. He wasn't looking so relaxed anymore and he found himself swallowing forcefully to wet his dry throat.

"It's okay if you don't want to talk about it, I understand" Bethel uttered.

Harry looked at her before narrating the past he dreaded, "four years ago at this time, I was happy celebrating the success of one of my company. Stephanie drugged my wine and I woke up to see myself in a construction site, lying on the concrete floor"....

"Turn out it's been a long time Steph had her plan schemed to take possession of my property. She didn't care if we had a child together, she didn't care if our baby was just a month old"...

Bethel's face was expressionless, her eyes were filled with fire. How can Steph be so vicious!.

Harry continued. "She came back with an injection afterwards and told me she won't force me to sign the documents. She isn't going to give me but she will make me beg for it. Then she injected me"

Harry closed his eyes as the pains filled his mind as if it was yesterday. "Whatever the drug is, it's a powerful aphrodisiac that made me so sexually aroused. I was half - insane. I refused to sign the documents and she left me there for long hours that felt like forever. I was in excruciating pains"

"Ohh heavens!" A year dropped from Bethel's eyes. She placed her hand on Harry's hand on the rail, patting it softly.

"Pumped high on that drug for hours, I met face to face with death but I didn't give in, I couldn't give in. I cried, screamed and begged. Steph came back with Diego, my competitor and pumped me with the second and third injection. The fire that lit in me was excruciating. I was kept there for three horrible days. The worst day of my life. My body battered until I lived and breathed pain.

.. my brother found me on the fourth day because my GPS device was on luckily. When I arrived at the hospital, the doctors couldn't do anything for me. I was injected with a new dangerous drug like none other they've seen and it's very active in my bloodstream that extraction is impossible without killing me.

.. I have never seen my mother, father and siblings cry so much. I was a mess. Even there in the hospital, barely alive, I still wanted sex.

Do you know I was chained on the hospital bed..

Harry paused his narration and looked at Bethel in the eyes. "So you're right. I know nothing about sex. The only thing you don't know is that the woman I loved once made me this man I am today" he whispered.

Silence descended. Deadly silence.

Harry lowered his head.

More silence.

"Steph. That BEAST!" Bethel's chest was heaving repeatedly.

Her eyes found Harry's eyes.."and you let her go just like that?" She asked.

"Diego has my tape... my tape in that same state you saw me in" he replied.

Bethel froze suddenly. Not knowing what to do, she moved into his arm. She didn't know when she walked closer, all she knows was that his warmth suddenly surrounded her, his arms contracted as he pay her hair.

She didn't know how long she sob in his chest... how long they stayed that way, pouring out their emotions in a slow deep kiss until their breath was one.

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